fixedlegs2012 wrote:Know people that race in it every year. Permits are taking 3 months to get atm, so STCC could look at a weekend next year for it

Your best bet is to formulate a plan, including ideas on how to fund it, and, how to find marshalls for it.Find a committee member sympathetic to your idea, and discuss it.Get along to a meeting and present your plan.

There must be an AGM coming up soon that might provide you with an opportunity.

You might whip up a bit of support on this forum, however, to a large degree, you are peeing into a headwind; BNA does not run events, and the people you need to sell to might not frequent this site.

Unfortunately is was to hard for it to be managed so is now a distant memory and I only ever got to race it once

Next year looks like the rebirth of a Harvest cycle type event/week of racing. The Mt Wellington challenge is going to be the weekend after the Southern Valley Tour with a crit on the wednesday. Probably some organised bunchies on the other days. The aim obviously is to encourage people to come down and stay the whole week. Some hard racing for two daysTwo days sightseeing with a bunch ride somewhere on one or both days.Race a crit on a course that makes you earn every lap.Two days for reco and to carbo load at some of Hobarts eateries.Race the clock up a dirty big hill.

Sounds like a pretty good prep for the TT for the serious types and a week long adventure for the rest!!....well the majority really.

This weekend is a good one. STCC has a 20km TT on Saturday, 10am at Richmond and Hobart Wheelers/Dirt Devils have a Crit at 1pm at Tolosa Park.Then on Sunday we have a 40km scratch, mass start road race at Woodsdale.

Unfortunately is was to hard for it to be managed so is now a distant memory and I only ever got to race it once

Next year looks like the rebirth of a Harvest cycle type event/week of racing. The Mt Wellington challenge is going to be the weekend after the Southern Valley Tour with a crit on the wednesday. Probably some organised bunchies on the other days. The aim obviously is to encourage people to come down and stay the whole week. Some hard racing for two daysTwo days sightseeing with a bunch ride somewhere on one or both days.Race a crit on a course that makes you earn every lap.Two days for reco and to carbo load at some of Hobarts eateries.Race the clock up a dirty big hill.

Sounds like a pretty good prep for the TT for the serious types and a week long adventure for the rest!!....well the majority really.

This weekend is a good one. STCC has a 20km TT on Saturday, 10am at Richmond and Hobart Wheelers/Dirt Devils have a Crit at 1pm at Tolosa Park.Then on Sunday we have a 40km scratch, mass start road race at Woodsdale.

Yeah mate not sure what the MWC will be next year, looks like the wheelers want to take it on given what Evan has said in comments about this years race.

I reckon it will be a standalone event.

A welly TT as part of a tour would be nice though. If you could get the permits and people behind it. I can't speak for STCC but my personal opinion is we could not do it alone. It would need the Wheelers and or someone else to help. CT support would be nice but I would not hold my breath on that one.

The only thing I can think of is less people might work on a Sunday? I'm just assuming there is a reason behind it but you would need to ask someone that has been around longer. [Bucky or Nige could tell you]

Kids sports on Saturdays? Maybe the club is run by a bunch of godless heathens?

So to answer your question....no idea. It wouldn't make much difference to me.

Baldy wrote:So to answer your question....no idea. It wouldn't make much difference to me.

I've been a member of nine different cycling clubs, with a pretty equal mix of Saturday and Sunday racing. In the early years, Saturday racing was afternoon only, due to most people working 8-5 Monday to Friday, and shops closed Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday. Many people did their shopping on Saturday morning. With almost 24/7 shopping today, that is not a consideration.

The participation rates seemed not to vary between Saturdays and Sundays.

In the "old days", Saturday racing was seen as advantageous as it left Sunday free to go out and wear yourself out on longer training rides, however this was also tied in with the inflexible shopping and working hours of the time. People had less opportunity to do longer rides mid week, than they do today.

I doubt that it would make much difference today.

The above comments are related to road racing exclusively.

During my membership of Brunswick and Townsville cycling clubs, we raced on the track on Friday nights under lights, from October to Easter. This was a very popular arrangement, as it gave a free weekend. The advent of daylight saving in Victoria also saw midweek track racing from 7pm when I was at Kyneton, and Ballarat.